At present UEFA take a huge slice of the broadcasting and sponsor payments while the broadcasters take all the pay-per-view and advertising revenues. Streaming techhnology means that clubs can produce their own broadcasts and take the lot. The clubs own the content so should get the lions' share of the revenue. This is what the whole breakaway row is about. Last year's CL final apparently had 450 million viewers across the globe. Why should the clubs give away their content for peanuts? It is nothing to do with the law. It is globalisation (whether we like it or not). If UEFA wants to survive it will have to give up its monopoly.
UEFA doesn't have a monopoly. That was the whole point of the recent case. What it does have, as the governing body of the sport is a responsibility under the European Sports Model to support the football pyramid. And that is what it does. You think UEFA syphons off 50% of its broadcast and sponsorship revenue and does what with it exactly? Do you actually know how much UEFA spends on its own organisational structure, compared to how much it reinvests in the game by way of prize money, participation bonuses and solidarity payments to the domestic leagues?
I see nothing at all wrong with the current structure, taking into account the long-term future of the game across the continent.
On the contrary, your vision of the future where how many (four or five?) "global") clubs take all the broadcast revenues and sponsorship for themselves, in what will amount basically to glorified friendlies, isn't globalisation in my book, it's the death knell for organised football in Europe. You will no doubt say these clubs would be expected to plough some of their earnings back into grass roots football, so you are effectively saying some money should be siphoned off to protect the game? That is exactly what UEFA does.
I am not sure your boxing analogy works in football either. The sports are completely different.
I have my problems with FIFA and UEFA as well, but consolidating all the power in a few clubs isn't the way forward imho. It won't be supported by anyone, including the legal system, and, in my opinion, will never happen to football in Europe.
Then again, I could be completely wrong. It has been known :)
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